>>> "pds" == Paul D Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
pds> Hi all; pds> I got no real response to this. This release of GNU make (3.81) is pds> coming up (one hopes!) and this seems like a real problem that we need pds> to come up with a solution for. If we don't it seems like automake and pds> GNU make 3.81 and Java simply will not be usable together. I Paul. Your mail came in right when I was browsing my TODO list for things to do before Automake 1.9.6. One entry is "ping about dollar.test". My last mail about this is here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2005-03/msg00067.html [...] pds> One of the words in the .FEATURES list will be second-expansion if this pds> feature is present. pds> However, I see no way to take advantage of this that is compatible with pds> non-GNU versions of make. I can't see any way either. Is there a way to disable this feature? That might be the simplest solution. pds> I don't know whether automake currently works correctly pds> for Java with any other version of make, but this would pds> definitely cause that not to be the case going forward. I believe $-filenames works only with GNU make. -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz
